Install Internet Explorer 6 Flash 9 Debian Sarge

You need wine and cabextract

First add to /etc/apt/sources.list

#deb http://www.backports.org/debian sarge-backports main

Now install cabextract

#apt-get install cabextract

and wine from backports

#apt-get install wine-utils wine -t sarge-backports

create a link to wineserver

ln -s /usr/lib/wine/wineserver /usr/bin/wineserver

Look if X server is listening at port tcp 6000

$netstat -natp|grep :6000
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:6000 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 2192/X

Otherwise edit desktop manager conf file (gdm.conf)

copy/paste this line

DisallowTCP=true

and allow TCP ( add some iptables rules!!)

#DisallowTCP=true
DisallowTCP=false

restart X

Now we can download the installer script from tatanka.com.br

$wget http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/downloads/ies4linux-2.0.3.tar.gz
$tar zxvf ies4linux-2.0.3.tar.gz
$cd ies4linux-2.0.3
$./ies4linux

IE 6 will be installed automatically, you can choose to install IE 5.5 & IE 5.0 [SP2].

Available languages:
EN-US PT-BR DE FR ES IT NL SV JA KO NO
DA CN TW FI PL HU AR HE CS PT RU EL TR

Flash player 9 plugin will also installed.

run IE

$ ~/bin/ie6

or 2xclick desktop icon

what about IE7 ? read this